HP Matrix Operating Environment Software - Manual (Page 17)

Virtual Connect
domain group A logical collection of VC domains with the same network and storage configuration.
A VC domain group can be expanded from the Virtualization Manager's Visualization
View, Blades perspective.
Virtual machine A software entity provided by HP Integrity Virtual Machines, VMware ESX, or Microsoft
Virtual Server. This technology allows a single server or (with Integrity Virtual machines)
nPartition to act as a VM Host for multiple individual virtual machines, each running
its own instance of an operating system (referred to as a guest OS). Virtual machines
are managed systems in Insight Dynamics.
Virtual partition A software partition of a server, or of a single nPartition, provided by HP vPars. Each
virtual partition can run its own instance of an operating system. A virtual partition
cannot span an nPartition boundary.
Visualization View The view presented by clicking the Virtualization Manager's Visualization tab. By
default, the view “perspective” is set for physical and logical systems. Alternately, you
can change the view to show logical servers, server blades, virtual machines,
Serviceguard, or systems and events.
Workload A basic unit of manageability in Virtualization Manager. A workload is a set of
processes whose real-time resource utilization can be monitored by Virtualization
Manager and collected by Capacity Advisor. Workloads assigned to a Shared Resource
Domain (SRD) can be managed according to a policy by Global Workload Manager
(gWLM). Workloads are graphically displayed from the Virtualization Manager's
Visualization View and Workload view. Workload types include: managed workloads
that are managed by Global Workload Manager (gWLM) and monitored workloads
that are not managed by gWLM and do not have a policy associated with them but
can be monitored by Virtualization Manager. Whole-OS workloads include a set of
all processes running on a system (server, nPartition, virtual partition, or virtual machine).
Whole-OS workloads are not displayed as workloads in the Visualization View but
are represented by the compartment box for the system. Serviceguard workloads are
monitored workloads associated with a Serviceguard cluster and a particular package
within the cluster.
Workloads are supported only on HP-UX nodes.
Workload view The view presented by clicking the Virtualization Manager's Workload tab.
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